Tales Beyond Borders
I throughly enjoyed the Tales Beyond Borders Conference last week. A wonderful collection of people all with a passionate interest in…
Reality Check Podcast – Professor Todd Landman
In the latest Reality Check Podcast, Professor Todd Landman discusses Magic, Mystery, Framing and other deeply interesting topics. Definitely worth…
Be a Magician
I found this advert while looking at 1940’s DC comics…
The Magic Menagerie – Todd Landman
News of a new show coming to the Magic Research Group! The Magic Menagerie – Todd Landman
How to Make Magic – one of my favourite books
How to Make Magic – Sharon Finmark and David Wickers Listening The Mystic Menagerie Podcast with Dan Baines and Freddie…
Spooky Seque
A big thank you goes out to everyone who attended my Research Seminar on Performing Séance it was great to…
Performing Séance: Four Steps to Collective Delusion
On Thursday 30th October 6.00pm as part of the Magic Research Group’s Seminar Series I shall be giving a presentation…
Magic Lab
Over on the Magic Research Group site I talk about our Magic Lab project …
After the Sabbatical, the Laundry.
I’m facing a multi-dimensional fork in the road and it calls for some deep thinking. The relative safety of the…
The Selenite Oracle
So, for the past few weeks, I’ve been working on something called The Selenite Oracle. It has left me with…
After Doomsday
Last weekend we celebrated Doomsday 2013 in Whitby. I call it a celebration as the gathering represents to me all…
Geomancy
Many years ago I while I was working through Ali Bongo’s Book of Magic making every prop I could, I…
Almost May…
The usual three month break from this blog and I’m back again writing something meandering… So, I’m currently in the…
Leaving the Sideshow
A new year and a whole new series of challenges ahead. Most of all The Sabbatical. Beginning in earnest next…
Edge of the Unknown (and more)
It’s been a busy October here as I’ve been setting up the Magic Research Group and the Journal of Performance…
Where am I?
For the rest of this year my research time is going to be spent preparing for my upcoming sabbatical. A…
Getting There
Dear Blog, It’s been 2 months since my last confession and time has flown. Magical things are developing nicely (if…
Gypsy Fortune Cards
I’ve had a couple of enquiries regarding the set of cards I blogged about here: Fortune Telling with Playing Cards….
Working in the Studio
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working in a studio. Working in a very different way to how…
Still here?
So, I’m back on my webpages after so cruelly ignoring them for so long… I’ll be slowly revamping the pages to…
Scripting & Storytelling For Paranormal Entertainers
This month it was an honour to supply and Introduction to Scripting & Storytelling For Paranormal Entertainers, published May 2011….
Collective Delusion and the Madness of Crowds
(April 2011) Collective Delusion and the Madness of Crowds published in Occult Magic 2: Into The Darkness by Freddie Valentine.
Scrambling Your Mind!
Scrambling your mind! Presented by The British Society of Mystery Entertainers & The University of Huddersfield. Come join top UK…
Tabula Mentis IX
PSYCRETS are proud to sponsor : Tabula Mentis IX Featuring: Barrie Richardson 2 Lectures Looch Mental Minimalism lecture Nik Taylor…
Derren Brown – Svengali
How do you talk about a show when you’ve promised not to tell? I went to see it in Bradford…